Look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
Luke 21:28
Words: Benjamin Beddome (1717–1795). Published posthumously in Hymns Adapted to Public Worship (London: Burton & Briggs, 1818), number 800. Confidence at Christ’s Appearing.
Music: Dibdin, from the Standard Psalm Tune-Book, 1852, attributed to Dr. Jackson (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know the composer’s full name, or where to get a good picture of him or Beddome (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
Jesus, descend with glory crowned,
Make bare Thy mighty arm;
Let the archangel’s trumpet sound
The dread and loud alarm.
Let the rebellious race appear
Before Thine awful seat,
There the decisive sentence hear,
Thy just displeasure meet.
See the whole globe of earth on fire,
And towns and forests blaze,
While those who made them their desire,
Are filled with wild amaze.
Let sinners now to mountains pray,
To rocks for shelter fly;
Mountains will shake as well as they,
The rocks in fragments lie.
But saints the scene with calmness view,
Now their redemption’s near;
Their Judge is their Redeemer too,
Whose love forbids their fear.